Porsche Taycan Did 2,128 Miles In 24-Hour Nardo Endurance Run
Porsche has done something very 24 hr of Le Mans like... Posed the question: How far can you go in 24 hrs when everything else is pretty much unrestricted (closed circuit). The car is allowed to go as fast as it can. Drivers are freshened at charge stops...
This is a fantastic metric for e-cars manufacturers! The game becomes one of balance - what's the best speed to travel, using what fraction of the battery, that will allow optimal charging stops...?? All put together.
Everybody knows there's a taper penalty of time by trying to eek out the top end 10% of an uncapped battery on a Tesla.
But does the Taycan taper? Maybe the battery is over-provisioned (extra cells for top end buffer) so fast charging zooms to 100%, unplug and go again. Anybody know the Taycan behavior at low end SOC... when does speed start to suffer, or does it? Can it run hard to 1% safely knowing there's a charger waiting on the next lap..
So, for Tesla, it brings theory and I'm sure people have already figured this out. When the SC charging rate tapers down and "miles per hour gained at the pump" drops... what's the best point to unplug and go when you're playing the Le Mans game? I think there's a differential equation of two energy curves over time involved in figuring that out. And it may be different from car to car, but there's got to be a general rule. Anyone?
point of personal trivia.. this was my 3000th post to this forum, and seems fitting it started a thread
Porsche has done something very 24 hr of Le Mans like... Posed the question: How far can you go in 24 hrs when everything else is pretty much unrestricted (closed circuit). The car is allowed to go as fast as it can. Drivers are freshened at charge stops...
This is a fantastic metric for e-cars manufacturers! The game becomes one of balance - what's the best speed to travel, using what fraction of the battery, that will allow optimal charging stops...?? All put together.
Everybody knows there's a taper penalty of time by trying to eek out the top end 10% of an uncapped battery on a Tesla.
But does the Taycan taper? Maybe the battery is over-provisioned (extra cells for top end buffer) so fast charging zooms to 100%, unplug and go again. Anybody know the Taycan behavior at low end SOC... when does speed start to suffer, or does it? Can it run hard to 1% safely knowing there's a charger waiting on the next lap..
So, for Tesla, it brings theory and I'm sure people have already figured this out. When the SC charging rate tapers down and "miles per hour gained at the pump" drops... what's the best point to unplug and go when you're playing the Le Mans game? I think there's a differential equation of two energy curves over time involved in figuring that out. And it may be different from car to car, but there's got to be a general rule. Anyone?
point of personal trivia.. this was my 3000th post to this forum, and seems fitting it started a thread